A riveting parallelism I want us to consider is that of faith versus fear, and how this relates to the Amish world. Any group of people, I think we would say, to some degree lives by faith. That’s only common sense. But the faith we are focusing on today is faith that is the opposite of the concept of fear. Faith as in living by the good that is unseen, or the hope for good. This idea, then, is contrasted with fear, which is living by the bad that is unseen, or the bad which could happen in the future. It is the expectancy that bad is, or may happen. Nonetheless, let us examine my beliefs that the Amish do in fact live by faith, a virtuous faith, which is tied into their environment and what source they use to guide that faith. And after that, we’ll have a general discussion of faith versus fear as pertains to the Amish.